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“I am so far and changed from that - I don’t even remember that person. It was eight years ago, I was 17-years-old.

“I wasn’t a person of influence at all, I had about 100 followers if that, worked in retail and I think, unfortunately, times were so different.

The now-deleted tweet, which surfaced earlier this year after being originally posted in 2012

“Everyone was a bit ignorant, myself included. I was ignorant, I was uneducated - in the sense that I didn’t realise the impact telling jokes like that would have.

“The tweet was from a Kevin Hart parody account. There are quote marks but when people are dragging and they want to be angry about something, they’re not really going to pay attention to fact it was a quote because really it doesn’t matter.

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She opened up about her own experiences of being a victim of racial abuse to explain and reinforce her understanding of why so many people were offended by her past tweets.

“I’m half-Somali and I used to get ripped the s*** out of for that,” she said. “Before I joined year 7, during the summer holidays or whatever, I went to some summer school club and there was these boys and they were so horrible to me because they found out I was Somalian.

“So when I joined year 7, and I met my classmates, I was like ‘yeah, ummm, I’m like Spanish and Jamaican’ or something like that when they asked me where I was from.

“I made up a whole completely different background because I didn’t want anyone to judge me on where I was from.

“I get it - it’s not the same thing but I understand the feeling of people being rude and taking the p*** out of where you are from or your race or your skin colour when it is something you can’t change.”